Sandra Lubarsky writes on beauty and sustainability and advocates for the revival of beauty as a public value. Her most recent book, co-authored with Tom Butler, is On Beauty: Douglas R. Tompkins—Aesthetics and Activism.

Karen D. Holl is a professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she has taught courses and advised students on research and internships related to ecological restoration for more than 20 years. Her research...

Julian Crandall Hollick is an award-winning producer and writer of radio documentaries. His programs have aired on NPR, the BBC, and CBC in Canada. Hollick was described by Peter Jennings as “the person who taught me about Islam,” and by...

David Dobbs is a writer who lives in Montpelier, Vermont. A frequent contributor to Audubon, he is co-author of The Northern Forest (Chelsea Green, 1995), which won the Sigurd F. Olson Award for Excellence in Nature Writing and numerous...

Richard Manning is an award-winning journalist and writer based in Lolo, Montana. Among his books are Food's Frontier (North Point, 2000), Grassland (Viking, 1995), A Good House (Grove, 1993) and Last Stand (Gibbs Smith, 1991...

Jesse Boudart is a transportation engineer who understands how the engineering discipline influences human decisions to get around. He works at a leading multimodal planning/engineering firm called Toole Design and has published several transportation...

ThienVinh Nguyen is an Urbanist Journalism Fellow with Greater Greater Washington. Vietnamese-born, California-grown, ThienVinh resides in the verdant neighborhood of Deanwood. She focuses on stories about civic engagement, urban development and planning...

Dave Evans was the EPA Wetlands Division Director from 2005-13 and currently works for the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. He is a member of the Environmental Protection Network, a bipartisan organization of former EPA employees...